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Summer 2009

"Please call Stella..." What you say doesn't always tell who you are but how you say it nearly always give away where you're from. Browse the huge collection of audio samples in the Speech Accent Archive from George Mason University for a trip through global accents and pronunciations. For quick fun, navigate with the map.

From Punnett Squares to the Pioneer "Golden Record", science makes for some great tattoos. Discover Magazine has collected 165 such masterpieces of skin, ink, and brains. A forearm inked with the periodic table or complex equations (above) would sure come in handy during final exams. We'll never know if the ubiquitous "jumping dolphin" is a sign of too many sloe-gin fizzes or extreme Douglas Adams fandom.

When Laurence Hutton was alive more than a hundred years ago, he must have been strangely received by his contemporaries when he'd ask them "Would you like to come over to see my masks of both the living and the dead?" Fortunately, it isn't nearly as creepy today, because you can just go visit Princeton University's Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks, which features everyone from Aaron Burr to Walt Whitman, all without Hutton standing over your shoulder, silently staring.

The road to modern medicine is paved with half-cocked, screwball pieces of machinery. Some were created with the best intentions, like the Shoe-Fitting X-Ray Device, while others were clearly easy money scams or the work of minds in need of a little medication themselves, like the McGregor Rejuvenator, which sounds like its a con before you even find out what it does. To our benefit, the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices refuses to takes side and catalogs them all.

"'The enemy was so close,' explained an inhabitant, 'You could hear the soldiers snoring in the evening.' The opposing Armies are now separated by a swamp and a forest. Ironically, the Northern soldiers are depending upon these Southern landmarks for protection.' Hey Bobby! I'll give you a Shot To Death and a Wall of Corpses for your Train of Doom." The Civil War Trading Cards Gallery, collect all 87.

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